Well, well, well....it seems some people just can't take a joke! If you didn't realize it at first, my previous post was purely sarcastic! As for the guard-former radio guy, there's a reason some of us are in radio, and he's watching over high rises in Pittsburgh. As it has been said, everyone's a critic. There's just too few who actually make any notion of sense. The guard, granted, does have some valid points about radio. But it's his attitude that he thinks he can do a better job at where I work than our current PD that makes me just want to tell him to "bring it on." Send a resume, arb #s from your last radio gig, whatever he thinks can get him hired as a PD. AS Dizzy Dean once said, "It ain't braggin' if you can do it."
Okay those of you in radio, I challenge you. I'll throw a $50 down and bet that you can't come up with one jock who NEVER passed on a freebie deal from an ad client.....whether it was schwag from a sports team, dinner, whatever. Even some of the "priceless" merchandise that Promotions kept under lock & key. We in radio have at one time or another, gotten good stuff from an ad client, record rep, whomever. Maybe some of you misread that part. The missing photo on the website, the omission on the schwag, make whatever you want of it. I DON'T CARE! And that IS that!
> Radio is not about what you get but what you do and how you feel about what you do.
Without giving away much info on WHAT I do, but still give you a clue of what it is I do.....I do traffic/weather updates during an FM radio morning show. My PD has de-emphasized what I do, saying that we are NOT a full-service station. He said this because he felt I was going too long with my updates. Well, we could down quite a few pints and blow packs of smokes over this one. All I WILL say is that I've done a lot more in radio in the past, and have felt good about what it is I have done. But in order to move along, I need to develop more talents. So, if my contributions aren't going to be as valued were I am now, is it so wrong to work on finding something where I can use my talents more frequently? I'm sure radio isn't the only profession where that occurs. Don't get me wrong, I like where I'm at...but if I can't flourish where I am at now, I'm sure some PD out there still appreciates talented radio people, not just glorified liner jocks. Hey, even Barry Bonds changed teams!
> your career clock is ticking. Have some pride man and quit thinking about the "BBD" and make your deal the big best deal.
In addition to my morning work, I also do a weekend shift. I don't talk as much as in other formats, but I would like to have people get an idea that I take the time to prepare what I want to talk about. The best result of something like that is when someone calls in a 2 a.m. to comment on a story you just read, or an opinion I just uttered. It's called SHOW PREP. You can tell when someone has worked on what they're saying, and those who don't/those who just "go through the motions." I may not be the "best big deal" yet, but I will be, soon. But I am DEFINATELY not as bad as some of the people I've heard in this market who brag about themselves on-air in 5+ minute diatribes that put me under quicker than ether. If working on my on-air performance and always looking for another avenue for my talents are pride.....GUILTY AS CHARGED!
> drunk,fat and stupid is no way to go thru life son. Get a
> clue or else .. tick, tick, tick ..
Well, it's all how you look at the qualities assocated with being drunk. Kevin Costner (as "Crash" Davis) in "Bull Durham" once said "everyone's gotta howl at the moon once in a while." Fat.....hmmmmmm.....we live in the country that has the most obese people, so that insult doesn't reach anywhere as much as it used to. Stupid? Well, one just needs the right motivation & medium to convey the message to prove whether they're stupid or not. And some people need a message this long to prove to others that they're NOT stupid! And drunk & fat doesn't affect people like it used to.
In sum, ladies & gentlemen of the jury, it's all in how we read the message. I posted because those incidents were just a sampling of the hilarious dealings I have had in radio over the years. But some people are so closed-minded that they can't put imagination to use and look at the comments from different perspectives. They take things all too seriously, and lash out when something touches a nerve too close to them. I can't tell you how many times people have posted nasty blogs about stations that made me swallow a lot of pride. If you are a sports fan from way back, let me give you an analogy.
Jerry Kramer was an offensive lineman for the Green Bay Packers of the 1960s, and authored the book "Instant Replay." In the book, he spoke of his head coach, Vince Lombardi, in very negative terms. However, Kramer later told NFL Films that if anyone other his teammates tried to bad-mouth Lombardi, they'd pound the s%#t out of them.
That's how I feel about the stations I've worked at. If you've read blogs about other stations here, you can almost tell which ones are written by those who work for said station, and those who don't. For those who don't work for said station, it could be for a number of reasons, and for every reason a list of motivators so long we might not know where it ends. I just have taken it all in, and posted when I thought I had a very objective viewpoint. And I have restrained myself from replying to those who have cowered to come here to post anonymous messages. But it's when there's an obvious lack of humor and introspect amongst some of you that gives me the motivation to come here and try to set the record straight. If you become so upset that all that you can reciprocate with is name calling and expletives, well then maybe I am not the one with personal demons. I have enough humor and introspect to know what is important to me in my radio career, and what I can laugh off and what needs to be dealt with.
And that is my point of view, ladies & gentlemen of the jury.
